Word: upright
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Furthermore, we truly appreciate the manner in which The Crimson, the fountainhead of virtue and upright moral character, continues to "search out and destroy" such fiendish characters as Dean Robert Kiely...
...vast majority of the Dutch press and public last week embraced the Prime Minister's advice to consider Prince Bernhard innocent until proved guilty. That generosity of judgment was partly self-interested: the toppling of national idols is always painful, and the Dutch understandably prefer their princes upright. Their open-mindedness was also a gesture of gratitude to the German-born prince, who in cool and timeless service to The Netherlands had transformed his adopted countrymen's initial wariness about his origins into almost universal esteem...
...might be called a sister act, except that New York theatergoers will need two tickets and a fast taxi to catch both Lynn and Vanessa Redgrave in action next month. For two weeks the British-born sisters will appear simultaneously on different stages, Lynn as the upright daughter of a veteran hooker in Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession, Vanessa as the star of Ibsen's The Lady from the Sea. Might that box office competition strain family relations? "We'll get along fine, as long as we don't talk politics," says Lynn...
...three years as New York State's special prosecutor, tough, single-minded Maurice Hyman Nadjari has been both praised and damned for his relentless crusade against official corruption. To his defenders he was upright, honest and dedicated in his pursuit of larcenous cops, politicians, judges and even fellow prosecutors. To his detractors he was unorthodox, ruthless, overzealous, tyrannical and inept. Last week, in a meeting that lasted less than three minutes, New York Governor Hugh Carey told Nadjari to clean out his desk. For Carey, who is thought to be eying a spot on trie Democratic national ticket...
...bullet exited from Kennedy's neck, grazing the left side of his tie knot. How then could it strike the right side of Connally? Only, scoffs Wecht, by "making an acute right turn in mid-air." That might be true if both Kennedy and Connally were seated stiffly upright and facing straight ahead at the time Kennedy was first hit. But there are no photos of this precise moment. Before the sign obscured him, Kennedy was last seen in the film to have been waving; Connally is shown turning to his right as he emerges from behind the sign...